Winehq donation and DATA COMPRESSION

[Gerold Jens Wucherpfennig]

Hi, I've donated some bucks to winehq by PayPal and want to spend more...
Can I decide for which things will be spend?
When donating money, how much of it will go to PayPal?
Is there a better way than using PayPal (by the donate link of the 
winehq front-page)?

BTW I've done some cabinet.dll stuff some years ago.
Can anybody give me a hint to some easy-to-understand data compression 
documentation?
I want to complete the cabinet.dll archive creation compression,
if I get the required knowledge. It's so difficult... :-(

Thanks and Bye,

Gerold

[Tom Wickline]

On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Gerold Jens Wucherpfennig <
[e-mail]> wrote:
> Hi, I've donated some bucks to winehq by PayPal and want to spend more...

:)
> Can I decide for which things will be spend?

The money goes to support future Wine Conference expenses. In the
past money has been given to developers to help cover their transportation
and lodging. And  toward the end of  the conference their has always been a
group meal with lots of beer. :)

When donating money, how much of it will go to PayPal?
>

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_display-fees-outside

Is there a better way than using PayPal (by the donate link of the winehq
> front-page)?

Paypal is the easiest way, but I'm sure if you mailed a certified cheque or
money order to Jeremy
it wouldn't be rejected :)

Cheers,
Tom
> BTW I've done some cabinet.dll stuff some years ago.
> Can anybody give me a hint to some easy-to-understand data compression
> documentation?
> I want to complete the cabinet.dll archive creation compression,
> if I get the required knowledge. It's so difficult... :-(
>
> Thanks and Bye,
>
> Gerold

[Wolfram Sang]

> BTW I've done some cabinet.dll stuff some years ago.
> Can anybody give me a hint to some easy-to-understand data compression 
> documentation?

You mean in general?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Compression

Should have enough links for the specific sub-topics.

Regards,

Wolfram

[Scott Ritchie]

Gerold Jens Wucherpfennig wrote:
> Hi, I've donated some bucks to winehq by PayPal and want to spend more...
> Can I decide for which things will be spend?
> When donating money, how much of it will go to PayPal?
> Is there a better way than using PayPal (by the donate link of the
> winehq front-page)?
>
> BTW I've done some cabinet.dll stuff some years ago.
> Can anybody give me a hint to some easy-to-understand data compression
> documentation?
> I want to complete the cabinet.dll archive creation compression,
> if I get the required knowledge. It's so difficult... :-(

By the way, I was tasked at Wineconf with sprucing up the Donate page to
answer questions like this in detail, however I had been putting it off
until I got my actual reimbursement check from wineconf.  That finally
happened recently, so I'll be working on this.

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie

[Gert van den Berg]

On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 15:58, Gerold Jens Wucherpfennig
 wrote:
> BTW I've done some cabinet.dll stuff some years ago.
> Can anybody give me a hint to some easy-to-understand data compression
> documentation?
> I want to complete the cabinet.dll archive creation compression,
> if I get the required knowledge. It's so difficult... :-(

7-zip might have some usable code under a LGPL license (many files are
public domain as well)? (But is is mostly C++, but some codecs seem to
have C implementations...) (p7zip might be easier..)

http://www.7-zip.org/

Gert

Fwd: Winehq donation and DATA COMPRESSION

[Gert van den Berg]

correct from address

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Gert van den Berg

On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 15:58, Gerold Jens Wucherpfennig
 wrote:
> BTW I've done some cabinet.dll stuff some years ago.
> Can anybody give me a hint to some easy-to-understand data compression
> documentation?
> I want to complete the cabinet.dll archive creation compression,
> if I get the required knowledge. It's so difficult... :-(

7-zip might have some usable code under a LGPL license (many files are
public domain as well)? (But is is mostly C++, but some codecs seem to
have C implementations...) (p7zip might be easier..)

http://www.7-zip.org/

Gert